Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Los 5 Sentidos

Hoy aprendimos sobre los cinco sentidos, Cual es tu sentido favorito?

Monday, August 29, 2011

Año 2011-2012

A todos mis estudiantes, bienvenidos a mi clase. Una de mis metas este año, es incorporar tecnologia al maximo, aqui podran ver todas sus fotos y videos de diferentes actividades que logremos hacer este año. Y !recuerda! cualquier cosa que quieras ser cuando seas grande lo puedes lograr.

Ms. Luevano :)

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Reflection!

With 11 tools training I learned so much and I really enjoyed, I also sure that I spend more than 9 hours through all of the interesting websites and tools, which I still have the need of going back and relearn on how to creat things in the Internet. For example, I need to go back and check how to creat an Avatar to teach my students. Now I see many of good benefits that the Internet has for us, and not only communicating with others but being literally technology educated.

I also enjoyed very much the blog because I was able to know more about my co-workers, when we're at school everybody is so busy with their students and classrooms that we hardly get to know each other. I really hope that everybody will use their blogs in daily basis and we all can get to know each other better. at least through the blogs.

Whenever I was at my apartment in the past I only used the computer to communicate throught Skype or Messenger with my family in Mexico. And when I'm in the school I only use the Internet to google-ing new ideas and activities for my students and checking my e-mail from school. I'm more into the nature, I love being outside in the park, riding my bike, or going to the gym, visiting a friend, going to church, reading a book near to a window with the sun light. but being for hours in the computer is not my thing at some point I considered a waste of time. And when I was at the University I was working on a paper, it always took me a lot of time to write an essay since English is my second language, it always took me extra time doing that.

I really enjoy learning during my summer time, it was great that they gave us this training to do it in our free time. I enjoyed a lot doing the storytelling with the pictures. I will use that with my students everytime we go to a fieldtrip. I also enjoyed using the image generators. Another program that I really liked learning about was the Jing, it let's you share pictures with other instantly withou making copy and paste. and is really easy to use. I also loved the idea of making videos there and download them to youtube. I learned a lot of new things and I hope to share all of these new knowledge as much as I can to my students. Please wish me luck and see you soon.

Tool #11

Digital Citizenship; It is really important to teach our students to be a good digital citizenship, just like we teach them to follow the rules in school there are rules by the time of using technology. The very most important thing to teach to our students, I believe is Internet Safety. I never really thought it this way. I'm always trying to teach my students about the importance of what a person is completetly, and I talk to them about the values and introduce as many possible values I can think of and every day we discussed about them and we apply them during the school year.
Thanks to Technology individuals are capable of use this for many reasons like to get educated, employment, entertainment or simple social communications with others. This has created a society of digital citizens, these digital citizens like in any other society need to learn the right way of using Technology where they need to learn rights and laws. Most of our students are very confortable when it comes to use technology, but the concern here is, are they using technology properly? are they being good digital citizenships? It's pretty much like teaching them the right way of using technology. They are roles and responsabilities when it comes the usage of technology. It is very important to teach our students those values, so they can get only benefits from technology.
Students need to learn how to manage informations from the web, they need to learn how to recognize a good source and not believe in everything they see on the web.

Tool #10

Exploring Mobile Technology and Apps. The I-touch devices are very easy and friendly to use. Unfortunately, the only time I had a chance to use one was at the mall. Hopefully, we all get to use them and expose to our students of the new technology. The apps are applications or little programs that you can get on you device and use them by simple touching the screen. They are apps where you can have books to read and then answer questions about what you read. They just are so many applications or programs in it that the only way to really learn from it, it's by owning the i-touch device. The apps can be designed or costumize them on your screen and the great thing about almost all the apps is that they are free.

Maybe in the future, the i-touches is what the students will be using to make notes, or to read in the classroom instead of taking out a book or a notebook. Who knows?

Tool #9

Sharing information through Jing and Skype, is a great tool that our students can start learning to use, probably by the end of the school year at 1st grade. Once the students learn how to navigate throught the internet and learn how they can obtain information and images is important that they learn how to share the informations and images.

Skype is great program where students can learn how to chat and how to make a phone call through the computer at any country of the world. I personally use this program to communicate with my mom. She can see me with no problem and communicate, is great! You probably heard about the new iphone 4 which has the skype program included in it and people can communicate each other using that program without going over the minutes. I remember in the past how people talked about how in the future you were going to be able to see the person when communicating with them over the phone. I guess the future is now! love Skype!

Jing is a great website to share information with other people. Jing has the same tools we all have at the activ-board, you can take videos of what your doing in the computer if you want to explain how to do something or you can share any image your watching in the computer with someone just by cropping the image and copying the link with whoever you want to share. I love the fact that any video you create a Jing can be upload at youtube withou the need of transforming a video to mp3.

Excellent new Tool!

Tool # 8

Video Resourcing is one of the best tools I like, they are many examples on how teacher can explain new subjects to the students. And if you decide to show a video to your students is fun and at they same time the students get to learn new subjects.
The videos that I mostly use are from Brainpop Jr., these videos covered many important subjects that kinder and first graders need. If your students learn how to use these videos they can be assess by themselves by taking the the "easy quiz" or "hard quiz" after watching a video. I highly recommend it.

This video is about patterns, students that already know what is a pattern can learn different ways to do patterns and if you have a student that has no idea what is pattern, this video is a great introduction to understand what a pattern is. You can find this video at Video Streaming from our portal.

Yeaaaaaaah! the video upload, after 10 minutes but it did!

This other video is great to start telling to your students the important of being healthy and clean without being disrespectful, This video shows to your students the importance of brushing their teeths and they show techniques on how to do it properly.